Hello!
I'd like to work with you on this illustration.
I am a great admirer of permacultural design and was active in our neighborhood's community garden (until we moved, unfortunately), so this comes close to heart. Especially when I see what you guys have created and the message you try to send out with it.
Besides vectors, ink and watercolor are my favorite mediums to draw in; that's how I started out, before implementing digital, too. I'd be happy to provide you with examples of watercolor drawings that I did.
I'd start out by going over every element in your brief together with you, from the Knowledge space to paulownias and everything in between (the duck look especially adorable), then making some pencil studies and sketches. When we're both on board with the concepts, I would go an make tighter lines, ink it and color it in, then send you both digital files and the drawing itself.
Please let me know and we can discuss more details over chat and get to work.
Thanks!
Best,
Marko
P.S. If this is the only time we hear from each other, I wish you good luck with your pursuits and lots of great design, too.